Word-At-A-Time-Blog

“Boy, I’ll tell ya,” said Blaze Cashew, laughing. He was standing at the office coffee urn regaling the morning regulars with a bit of bon mot.  “I was never afraid of the dark until I saw my electricity bill! Pardon the pun!” All the sycophants chuckled and clucked… everyone except Junior Marketing Analyst Grind Maxwell. … Read more

Dillinger Nards had always hated his name. “It’s bad enough our last name is Nards, but why Dillinger?” he’d asked his mother once, after a particularly bad day of teasing after school. “Why’d you name me after an assassin?” “Bank robber,” his mother had corrected him. “And he was only accused of homicide because he … Read more

Jonathan and Naomi were breaking up, and it was very sad. They’d been together 2 years, and they’d been arguing a lot lately, and  today – after about 3 days of not speaking, they’d texted and arranged to meet here, on the park bench where they’d first met. “It’s just gotten really heavy,” said Jonathan. … Read more